Word: video
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dart Group of retailing companies, made a bid for the Twinsburg, Ohio-based firm. With advice from Salomon Brothers, Revco chairman Sidney Dworkin led a $1.3 billion LBO financed largely by junk bonds that paid more than 13% interest. The company then expanded its line of merchandise to include video players and ^ electronic appliances in the hope of boosting business. Bewildered customers began shopping elsewhere, and Revco fell short of its sales and earnings targets. Revco became the largest LBO to seek bankruptcy-court protection last year, after a creditor demanded accelerated payments on $100 million of junk bonds...
...president and State Department claim there is a video of Bloch handing a suitcase to a Soviet agent. The feds say it probably contained classified documents, which helps to explain why Bloch has been receiving so much CIA and FBI attention lately...
...alleged killer of Rebecca Schaeffer appears to fit the profile to a % remarkable degree. He kept a video collection of episodes of her television show. He proudly displayed an autographed publicity photo of the actress, and he sent her "an affectionate letter" a year ago. He called her agency several times. Sadly, no one discerned in time the pattern of a fatal obsession...
...electric currents can be damaging is far from conclusive, scientists agree. Some epidemiological studies indicate a higher than normal incidence of cancer, including leukemia and brain tumors, among children and adults living or working close to power lines. A study in California found that pregnant women who worked on video-display terminals for 20 hours or more a week had twice the risk of miscarrying as other clerical workers. Such findings are suggestive, but the researchers admit that their work does not establish a direct cause-effect relationship...
...class is a kind of grass-roots media review board that any pollster worth his clipboard would give a rating point to get in on. Currently approved by the majority: any movie in which heartthrob Kevin Costner (Field of Dreams) removes his shirt. The video of the film Bull Durham, in which Costner takes off more than that, is one of the area's hottest rentals. Television gets its share of attention. Before summer reruns took over the tube, the women found that Moonlighting was funny again, and the wacky comedy of Tracey Ullman acquired a growing following. The women...